Oh, for one deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never let the flame grow dim That he has lit, a beacon on our way. MARGARETE MUENSTERBERG.   The Nation

Once more President Meiklejohn of Amherst has spoken in a way that distinctly reveals his habit of doing all his own thinking and of doing it vigorously. What he had to say on academic freedom before the Boston Baptist Social Union the other night was reported in a way that implied considerable antagonism to the position taken on this subject by the American Association of University Professors, and may even have been so intended. It is true that the association report did quite sharply divide the members of the teaching force from the members of the collegiate boards of trustees, and that in view of the division there is urgent need not to widen the gulf between by such false attitude toward it as President Meiklejohn so sharply denounced. The professor who goes sanctimoniously about loving himself as an unspoiled disciple of truth the while he sneers inwardly at the trustees who must be concerned with the search after money to pay him his salary, is entitled to all the censure which President Meiklejohn gave him. At the same time it is plain that an important division of labor does lie between trustees and faculty today, and must remain. The excellent committee of the American Association of University Professors which recommended certain practical steps for the wise maintenance of that division, in away which should as little as honestly possible hamper the laborers in their respective fields, did not, by this advocacy, imply any beneficent love for the type of professor which President Meiklejohn censured. They proposed certain practical measures; Dr. Meikeljohn has proposed the proper spirit in which those measures should be approached. It is unfortunate that he either appeared or intended to appear in antagonism to the association's report.   Boston Transcript.

Through an arrangement between the Alliance Francaise and the College of the City of New York, free courses in French are to be given in the evening during the coming year, not only to students but to the general public. Before the winter is over quite a number of New Yorkers may know how to pronounce Combles.   Boston Globe.